According to legend, “Gyges was a shepherd in the service of the king of Lydia” (Vaughn 28). Suddenly, "there was a great storm" and a crack appeared in the Earth and as Gyges, curious, descended into the earth, he noticed that there was a "hollow bronze horse... [and he] saw a corpse of , as he appeared to him, more than human, and wearing only a gold ring” (Vaughn 28). After testing the ring in several scenarios, Gyges determines that the ring allows the user to become invisible with this ring "seduced the queen, and with her help conspired against the king and killed him" (Vaughn 28 then goes on to explain that if there were to be two magic rings, then no righteous man would "keep his hands off that which was not his." " (Vaughn 28). No matter how much the man with the ring tries to be just, it is quite impossible to have the whole world at his fingertips and do nothing about it. With this ring any man could do unjust things and never get caught, for Glaucon this is the best life. According to Glaucon everyone would behave like Gyges, even the most righteous